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Molecular modelling of quinoline derivatives as telomerase inhibitors through 3D-QSAR, molecular dynamics simulation, and molecular docking techniques

Journal

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MODELING
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages -

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00894-020-04648-2

Keywords

Telomerase; CoMFA; CoMSIA; MDS; Molecular docking

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  1. Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India

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This study focuses on the design of novel telomerase inhibitors using various methods, including ligand-based and structure-based approaches. In-depth experimental research was conducted using 3D-QSAR, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics simulation, with results suggesting the potential for developing potent telomerase inhibitors.
Rising mortality due to cancer has led to the development and identification of newer targets and molecules to cure the disease. Telomerase is one of the attractive targets for design of many chemotherapeutic drugs. This research highlights the designing of novel telomerase inhibitors using ligand-based (3D-QSAR) and structure-based (molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation) approaches. For the development of the 3D-QSAR model, 37 synthetic molecules reported earlier as telomerase inhibitors were selected from diversified literature. Three different alignment methods were explored; among them, distill alignment was found to be the best method with good statistical results and was used for the generation of QSAR model. Statistically significant CoMSIA model with a correlation coefficient (r(ncv)(2)) value of 0.974, leave one out (q(2)) value of 0.662 and predicted correlation coefficient (r(pred)(2)) value of 0.560 was used for the analysis of QSAR. For the MDS study, A-chain of telomerase was stabilised for 50 ns with respect to 1-atm pressure, with an average temperature of 299.98 k and with potential energy of 1,145,336 kJ/m converged in 997 steps. Furthermore, the behaviour study of variants towards the target revealed that active variable gave better affinity without affecting amino acid sequences and dimensions of protein which was accomplished through RMSD, RMSF and Rg analysis. Results of molecular docking study supported the outcomes of QSAR contour maps as ligand showed similar interactions with surrounded amino acids which were identified in contour map analysis. The results of the comprehensive study might be proved valuable for the development of potent telomerase inhibitors.

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